Devil's Army

Chapter 1789: Blocking the Japanese Army in Zhengzhou 3

As the Japanese convoy went up the hill and turned the corner, it was bombarded by a group of mortars and rocket soldiers.

Two trucks were blown up at the corner, blocking the way for the following convoy.

The Japanese soldiers on the trucks jumped out and fired at the devilish troops in the canyon mountains, but they were quickly reduced to corpses under a dense barrage of bullets, grenades and mortar shells.

The Japanese soldiers in the follow-up convoy got off the vehicles and launched an attack on the devil troops in the mountain area of ​​the corner canyon. However, as soon as they showed their heads, they were fiercely strafed by a group of light and heavy machine guns on the mountain.

In order to reinforce the Japanese troops in Luoyang, the Japanese troops in Zhengzhou launched several consecutive attacks, but they were unable to break through the fire blockade of the First Army in the canyon and mountain corner.

At the corner of the underground path in Canyon Mountain, there were piles of Japanese soldiers' corpses.

The Japanese commander, whose offensive was not going well, sent a telegram to inquire about the progress of the southern section of the Zhengluo Railway, hoping to bypass it to reinforce Luoyang. However, the progress of the southern section was not going well either.

When the Japanese troops in Zhengzhou reached the hilly pass in the foothills of Mount Song in the north of Dengfeng, they were stubbornly blocked by the soldiers of the Second Regiment of the Second Brigade.

The Japanese artillery then launched a fierce bombardment on the positions of the devil troops on the pass.

Due to time constraints, the fortifications built by the Second Regiment at the Songshan Pass were temporary and could not withstand the fierce artillery bombardment of the Japanese army.

The first and second companies stationed on either side of the pass quickly retreated to the top of the mountain when the Japanese launched an artillery bombardment.

When the Japanese infantry launched an attack, they quickly rushed down their positions to block the Japanese charge.

The Japanese commander was anxious to rush to Luoyang for reinforcements and launched two major attacks on the pass under the cover of artillery.

The first and second companies of the second regiment not only avoided the Japanese army's crazy artillery bombardment, but also blocked the Japanese army's two attacks.

In the evening, the enraged Japanese commander ordered his infantry to attack the pass while the artillery fire was still going on.

The soldiers of the first and second companies had to brave the Japanese artillery fire and stubbornly block the attacking Japanese army, suffering heavy casualties.

The Japanese soldiers at the front were also hit by their own shells and flying rocks and fell down the mountain.

The Japanese troops who rushed to the front of the position were bombarded by intensive grenades from the soldiers of the first and second companies, and were stopped for a while.

A regimental commander discovered the crisis of the position through a telescope and hurriedly asked a battalion commander to send the remaining two companies.

The third and fourth companies, who had just arrived at the position, did not take time to rest, and like tigers coming down the mountain, launched a fierce counterattack against the attacking Japanese army, repelling the most dangerous wave of the Japanese attack.

The next day, as soon as the Japanese army began its attack, it was bombed by the Devil Force Air Force.

The Japanese commander, who was already familiar with the Devil Force's air force bombing tactics, ordered his soldiers to attack the position along the woods.

The dense trees in the grove blocked the sight of the First Army Air Force, making it impossible to continue the bombing.

The regimental commander had no choice but to send reinforcements continuously to stop the Japanese army's crazy attack.

For three days, a regiment that had lost nearly half of its soldiers still stubbornly blocked the Japanese army from passing through the canyon pass.

The battle in Luoyang has ended.

After wiping out the Japanese strongholds in northern Luoyang, the 3rd and 4th Regiments of the 2nd Brigade immediately marched eastward, capturing camps and strongholds along the way, and eliminated the Japanese strongholds in the towns and villages around Zhengzhou. They rushed over to join the 1st and 2nd Regiments of the 2nd Brigade.

Japanese scouts on the north and south lines of the Zhengluo Highway reported to their commanders one after another that a large number of reinforcements from the Devil Forces were on their way.

By this time, the Japanese commander had already known that all the Luoyang strongholds had been occupied by the devil's troops, so he had no choice but to order a retreat.